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  • The Madness of King George

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    Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king’s…

  • Death and the Maiden

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    A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

  • The Cloud Door

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    A very clever parrot lives in a Hindu palace, surrounded by many beautiful girls, but the parrot escapes, and is trapped far from the palace. One day, when its new owner is sleeping, the bird convinces a young boy to open the cage door. In return, it shows the boy a secret passage to get…

  • Romeo and Juliet, From Hate to Love

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    French musical created by Gérard Presgurvic and produced in 2001, at the Paris Convention Center. It is inspired by William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

  • The West Side Waltz

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    Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her company just for making music since Cara plays the violin accompanying Margaret at the piano. Because of her arthritis she accepts the housemaid Robin who wants to become an actress. With this naive pretty girl her life gets suddently…

  • Victor/Victoria

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    Out-of-work singer Victoria Grant meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a club in 1920s Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner…

  • A Streetcar Named Desire

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    A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

  • Moonlight and Valentino

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    A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

  • Jeffrey

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    Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man — except for his HIV-positive status.…

  • Total Eclipse

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    Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

  • Beautiful Thing

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    Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, where three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

  • Marvin’s Room

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    A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

  • The Crucible

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    A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover’s wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

  • Evita

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    The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

  • The Birdcage

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    Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club’s flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for…

  • The Fantasticks

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    Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter Luiss and Ben’s son Matt by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associate, knowing they will resist their fathers’ interference. As the two youngsters fall in love, the fathers plot to end the ‘feud’ by hiring a traveling showman to fake an abduction…

  • Urbania

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    A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.

  • Chinese Coffee

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    When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.

  • Lakeboat

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    A college student befriends various crew members while working a summer internship at sea.

  • Psycho Beach Party

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    Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who’s desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She’s the typical American girl – except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.

  • Quills

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    A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum’s resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to…